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StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Adding Multiplayer Training

I'd love to go toe-to-toe with a StarCraft pro. I'm godawful terrible in the sci-fi RTS's competitive multiplayer, but the humiliation would be well worth it to experience first hand how ridiculous 300 actions per minute really is. I imagine it would be like lining up for the 100-meter dash against Usain Bolt. Good news for StarCraft 2 punching bags like me, though: Heart of the Swarm will add a competitive multiplayer training program.

In an interview with PCGamesN, Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime revealed that the studio is hard at work on a number of features that it hopes will make StarCraft 2's multiplayer less daunting.

"A lot of people do feel intimidated, at least at first, in playing in ranked play," Morhaime told PCGamesN. "Unranked matches are a big step in that direction. But, even before that, a lot of players never make the transition from the campaign to matchmaking - to playing against people they don't know. There's a really nice feature we're adding in Heart of the Swarm which is a training area where you can basically play against the computer and the computer gives you tips on what you should be doing. It gradually gets harder. When you have completed the training program, you get unranked matched against the AI."

There you have it. It's a feature I plan to put to good use. Now if Blizzard would just hurry up and release Heart of the Swarm.